Have we already surrendered our freedom to guns? — It was already a sticky August morning in 1993, so I left the house early. I strolled my two year old daughter in her blue and pink umbrella stroller over to the mall to beat the hottest part of the day. Being pregnant with our second child, it was easy…

Algorithms vs. people — As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, women experience more difficulty with re-employment than men. The jobs that disappeared during the pandemic were disproportionately held by women in the leisure and hospitality, child care, and health care industries. But women are not necessarily coming back to work. According to the National Women’s…

With recommendations for improving brain health — Most medical research is predicated on the default male body creating an environment where women’s health care is substandard to that of men. Add into that mix, historical attitudes toward women’s health complaints as “hysterical”, and you have a recipe for dismissive health care for women. Maya Dusenberry’s breakthrough book…

Protecting our kids from profiteers Earlier this week, former Facebook product manager Frances Haugen testified before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Haugen claimed that in spite of Facebook’s own research detailing the harms that social media causes for teens, especially teen girls, they made no changes to…

Unpaid labor is a cornerstone of the American economy — Back in 1983 when I was 21 years young and thought I knew everything, I put my foot in my mouth so hard that I could feel it all the way down to my toes. You see, I had completely bought into the social narrative that a working woman had…

Stories from Indian and American women and their partners — American women of a certain age, myself included, will remember this commercial that played in the late ’70s and early ’80s. The message was that a woman could work until 5, read the kid’s bedtime stories, cook dinner and still satisfy her man because she was a “24-hour…

Denying children food is just one symptom of a malevolent movement — It is 4:00 p.m., and you have lost your wallet and have no access to money. You have been looking for it for hours to no avail. You are very hungry because you skipped breakfast and now have no way to buy food. One friend offers to give you $10…

Vigilante justice has no place in medical care — Vigilante justice has no place in medical care Back in 2016, when Donald Trump was elected President, women across the country felt a chill go down their collective spines. We knew that the election of a misogynistic grifter would spell the end of abortion rights. At the time, we were told we were “histrionic” or “overwrought”, but we…

In the early 2010s, a wave of news stories described an unthinkable horror to many hundreds of thousands of untested sexual assault kits sitting on shelves while the alleged perpetrators of those assaults walked free. Sexual assault kits had either been destroyed by police departments, ruined by inappropriate storage, or…